We have been creating more and more digital video at our museum - for oral histories, events, user contributed stories etc. We have the capability in-house to produce and edit videos for these purposes, but we are having trouble with the long term strategy of managing the uncompressed files. As we have run out of capacity in recent years, we have added hard-drives to servers and increased the capacity of our backups. But we can see that, at the rate we are creating video, in the next few years we may need close to 100 TB of capacity. At that point, backups are no longer an overnight process. I know there are solutions such as deduplication (only saving the difference between files), but I have no idea whether that would work for digital video. What about off-site storage and disaster recovery?
Can anyone recommend a consultant who has helped you with similar issues? David
